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Addison, Joseph - (19)
Aiken, Conrad Potter - (100/2)
Akenside, Mark - (73)
Akhmatova, Anna - (32)
Alcott, Louisa May - (75/25)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - (36/17)
Alger, Horatio - (66/52)
Alighieri, Dante - (100/1)
Allingham, William - (48)
Amichai, Yehuda - (44)
Ammons, A. R. - (31)
Amott, Lennox - (16)
Anderson, Elizabeth - (2)
Archer, Jean C. - (2)
Arnold, Matthew - (151/3)
Balestier, Wolcott - (0/21)
Barham, Richard Harris - (23)
Barnes, William - (29)
Bates, Clara Doty - (32)
Bates, Katharine Lee - (18)
Baudelaire, Charles - (236/2)
Behn, Aphra - (14)
Belloc, Hilaire - (61/3)
Benet, Stephen Vincent - (33/1)
Bennett, Charles Henry - (2/2)
Bierce, Ambrose - (16)
Blake, William - (140)
Boake, Barcroft - (36/3)
Boldrewood, Rolf - (0/1)
Bowles, William Lisle - (143)
Bradstreet, Anne - (40)
Brecht, Bertolt - (32)
Brereton, John Le Gay - (67)
Bronte, Anne - (69/2)
Bronte, Charlotte - (25/4)
Bronte, Emily - (52/1)
Bronte, Patrick - (12)
Brooke, Rupert - (97/1)
Brown, Thomas Edward - (24)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - (115)
Browning, Robert - (214/6)
Bryant, William Cullen - (132/3)
Burns, Robert - (503/1)
Burrows, Joseph - (1)
Butler, Ellis Parker - (74/9)
Byron, George Gordon - (189/12)
Campbell, John - (48)
Campbell, Thomas - (34)
Campion, Thomas - (13)
Carew, Thomas - (37)
Carleton, Will - (22)
Carman, Bliss (William) - (122)
Carmichael, Jennings (Grace) - (2)
Carr, John (Sir) - (112/1)
Carroll, Lewis - (74/3)
Carryl, Guy Wetmore - (41)
Cassels, Walter R. - (49)
Castleman, Virginia Carter - (1)
Cawein, Madison Julius - (960)
Chant, Joseph Horatio - (86)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - (69/34)
Churchill, Charles - (24)
Clare, John - (384)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop - (1/18)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (132/2)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (18)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - (53)
Collier, Ada Langworthy - (6)
Collins, William - (11)
Colman, George - (8)
Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) - (68)
Cowper, William - (308)
Crane, Walter - (150/1)
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson - (13/1)
Cuthbertson, James Lister - (10)
Daley, Victor James - (93)
Darwin, Erasmus - (8)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (4)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (35)
Derham, Enid - (8)
Dickinson, Emily - (448)
Dix, William Chatterton - (1)
Dobson, Henry Austin - (101/2)
Doneghy, George W. - (64)
Dowson, Ernest Christopher - (76/5)
Doyle, Arthur Conan - (60/103)
Drake, Joseph Rodman - (19)
Drayton, Michael - (228)
Drummond, William Henry - (72)
Dryden, John - (126)
Duff, J. L. - (1)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence - (422)
Dutt, Toru - (20)
Dyson, Edward - (95/98)
Earls, Michael - (45)
Edgar, Marriott - (35)
Edwards, George Wharton - (26)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - (226)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty - (51)
Fairless, Michael - (14)
Field, Eugene - (324/67)
Fire-Fly, Fanny - (1)
Flecker, James Elroy - (43)
Foott, Mary Hannay - (30)
Forrest, M. - (2)
Freeman, John - (197)
Frost, Robert Lee - (168)
Garrison, Theodosia - (61)
Gent, Thomas - (118)
Gilbert, William Schwenck - (172/1)
Gladden, Washington - (3)
Glass, Nancy Rebecca Campbell - (35)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - (347)
Goldsmith, Oliver - (40)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold - (38/1)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay - (71)
Gordon, Hanford Lennox - (75)
Gower, John - (9)
Greenaway, Kate - (40)
Gregory, Lady (Isabella Augusta) - (36)
Gurney, Eliza Paul Kirkbride - (43)
H. H. C. C. - (1)
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne - (12)
Hardy, Thomas - (663/43)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins - (46/2)
Harte, (Francis) Bret - (120/62)
Hartley, John - (299/60)
Hay, John - (76/3)
Hayes, John Milton - (7)
Hayley, William - (36/1)
Hebblethwaite, James - (4)
Heney, Thomas William - (4)
Henley, William Ernest - (154/5)
Hensley (Almon), Sophia Margaret - (51)
Herford, Oliver - (129)
Herrick, Robert - (1467)
Hewlett, Maurice - (35/14)
Hoatson, A. - (2)
Hoffmann, Heinrich - (21)
Holley, Marietta - (68/2)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell - (331/6)
Hood, Thomas - (177)
Hooper, Lucy Hamilton - (0/1)
Hope, James Barron - (59)
Hope, Laurence (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) - (132)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley - (71)
Horsford, Mary Gardiner - (32)
Housman, Alfred Edward - (105)
Howard, Hattie - (87)
Hugo, Victor-Marie - (63)
Hunt, James Henry Leigh - (24)
Ide, Abijah M. - (3)
Irving, Washington - (52/27)
Jennings, Elizabeth - (11)
Jonson, Ben - (92)
Joyce, James - (51/19)
Keats, John - (147)
Kendall, Henry - (215)
Kenna, Francis - (1)
Kipling, Rudyard - (641/528)
Landor, Walter Savage - (103)
Lawson, Henry - (475/164)
Leland, Charles G. - (53)
Lowell, Robert - (16)
Masefield, John - (40)
McCrae, John - (29)
Miller, Joaquin - (19)
Milton, John - (131/1)
Orwell, George - (8/64)
Osborne, Louis Shreve - (1)
Paterson, Banjo - (227/58)
Poe, Edgar Allan - (84/100)
Pope, Alexander - (82)
Prior, Matthew - (189)
Qabbani, Nizar - (38)
Scott, (Sir) Walter - (157/7)
Shakespeare, William - (159/24)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles - (464/7)
Teasdale, Sara - (324)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord - (327)
Thomson, James - (10)
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis) - (46)
Wells, H. G. - (0/57)
Whitman, Walt - (338)
Whittier, John Greenleaf - (483)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker - (12/1)
Wilmot, John - (39)
Wordsworth, William - (969)
Yeats, William Butler - (384)

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Top Viewed Poetry

This list is the Top 100 Poems by views.

Poem Title	Period	Lines	Reads
1: A Ballad Of John Silver		24	1461
2: A Brief Love Letter			1247
3: The Vote Of Thanks Debate		64	1200
4: Laugh And Be Merry			1184
5: The Road That Has No End		59	1156
6: Riding Down From Bangor		24	1099
7: A Woman’s Mood		56	1072
8: The Manger Throne		30	1070
9: Banjo, Of The Overflow	1892		1046
10: The Forest Reverie		37	1043
11: An Old Bush Road		72	1039
12: My Typewriter		24	1033
13: Men Of Australia		40	1030
14: The Overflow Of Clancy	1892	36	1027
15: Out Of Khaki		48	1025
16: Here's Luck		32	1025
17: Mickey Mollynoo		65	1021
18: The Village Street		72	1019
19: Night Shift		48	1018
20: Children Of Light			1014
21: Marshal Neigh, V.C.		64	1012
22: Peace, Blessed Peace		64	1012
23: In The Day's When We Are Dead		36	1007
24: Mud		48	1005
25: Repaired		54	1002
26: Said Grenfell To My Spirit		12	999
27: 39		48	998
28: Years After The War In Australia		70	987
29: Scots Of The Riverina		20	986
30: The Toucher		85	986
31: Peter Simson's Farm		64	984
32: Saint Peter		20	984
33: To Isadore		50	981
34: Bound For The Lord-Knows-Where		70	980
35: Young Kings And Old		24	979
36: A Dan Yell		48	979
37: Sacred To The Memory Of “Unknown”		30	977
38: The Water	1905	48	974
39: The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment		119	971
40: The Stranger's Friend		40	970
41: Victor		24	970
42: How The Land Was Won		64	968
43: Above Crow’s Nest - Sydney		64	968
44: The Stringy-Bark Tree		20	966
45: Said The Kaiser To The Spy		56	964
46: And What Have You To Say		44	964
47: Of The True Endeavour		28	964
48: Bush Hay		32	963
49: A Letter From Italy			962
50: Simple Sister Goes To Sydney		20	962
51: Before We Were Married		16	962
52: In Possum Land		8	961
53: The Things We Dare Not Tell		16	961
54: A Word From The Bards		30	961
55: The Birthday Wreath		30	961
56: The Teams		40	960
57: In The Street		30	958
58: John Underhill		150	958
59: To -----		20	958
60: I'd Back Agen The World		60	955
61: In The Storm That Is To Come		32	955
62: The Tracks That Lie By India		30	953
63: The Living Picture		64	953
64: Second Class Wait Here		31	952
65: The Three Kings		24	952
66: The Tragedy		16	952
67: The Triumph Of The People	1891	20	952
68: Epitaph On The Tombstone Of A Child			951
69: In The Downhill Of Life			949
70: This Living Hand		8	949
71: William Francis Bartlett		44	947
72: William Forster		72	946
73: The Gadfly		56	946
74: The Enemies			945
75: Struck It At Last		56	943
76: The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon		16	942
77: Since Nellie Came To Live Along The Creek		70	941
78: Cypher Seven "07"		88	940
79: Hannah Thomburn		104	940
80: Winter Roses		32	937
81: Say Goodbye When Your Chum Is Married		16	935
82: In The Evil Days		55	933
83: The Boatman Of Kinsale		32	933
84: The Welcome		32	933
85: The Auction		18	930
86: A Chorus			928
87: The Vanguard		20	926
88: The Two Samaritans And The Tramp	1890	21	924
89: The Watchers	1862	66	922
90: Dedication - Songs Of Labor		45	922
91: Jack Cornstalk		24	920
92: The Uncultured Rhymer To His Cultured Critics		40	919
93: For He Was A Jolly Good Fellow		30	917
94: The Wishing Bridge		52	916
95: Knocked Up		32	914
96: The Vagabond		108	914
97: The Trailing Arbutus	1879	18	913
98: To John C. Fremont	1861	26	912
99: Marshall's Mate		70	911
100: What The Traveller Said At Sunset		44	909